The Nathaniel R. Jones Center for Race, Gender, and Social Justice

As an incoming law student, you can apply to become one of a limited number of outstanding students who serve as Social Justice Fellows. Each Fellow receives tuition assistance in the amount of $3,500 each year ($1,750 per semester) in exchange for work on and attendance to the Center’s annual colloquium(s), events, and programs throughout the academic year. Additionally, our Fellows:

• research current social justice issues, 

• enroll in courses that teach legal analysis through the intersecting lenses of race, gender, class and sexuality

• complete externships with local social justice organizations, 

• participate in activities that seek to cultivate social justice scholars, leaders and activists,

• participate in an individual research project sponsored by the Center for Race, Gender, and Social Justice,

• help with the Center’s annual colloquium(s) and attend Center events and programs throughout the academic year.

The first of its kind in the nation, Cincinnati Law’s JD/MA in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program offers you a rigorous, interdisciplinary study of the law and the chance to earn both degrees over the course of four years. Your capstone experience is a semester-long externship that places you in the heart of social justice work—at a national public interest organization, such as the National Women’s Law Center, Equality Now, National Organization for Women or the Women’s Law Project.

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Cincinnati Law has long-been a leader in supporting social justice and human rights thought leadership and action through its institutes and specialized coursework. The joint JD/MPA in the Public Administration program provides students unique opportunities to engage in rigorous, interdisciplinary and study of law and public administration program that is focused on social justice and earn both their law degree and MPA in four years.

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As one of the nation’s leading social justice law schools, the concentration in Social Justice is designed to allow students to demonstrate their advanced knowledge of the subject area. To qualify for the concentration, students must satisfy both the Credit Hours Requirement and the Distribution Requirement. Students will verify their satisfaction of the requirements by submitting an "Application for Concentration in Social Justice" to the College of Law Registrar at least one month prior to the date of their graduation. Learn more about the Social Justice Concentration or request the application to apply for the Social Justice Concentration.

Join this groundbreaking team which, since 2005, has helped Cincinnati Law students represent more than 1,400 survivors of domestic violence, stalking, sexual assault and human trafficking in civil protection order hearings. Thanks to the work of the Clinic, Cincinnati City Council was the first in the nation to pass a resolution declaring that freedom from domestic violence is a fundamental human right. 

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